Jane Carruthers

Editor's note: 'In this book are gathered some of the artworks from The Brenthurst Collection relating particularly to the years from 1848 to 1852 which Baines spent in the Eastern Cape. In his day the writings, paintings and adventures of Thomas Baines were overshadowed by those of other travellers and explorers. What Baines had to say in pen and paint appeals to the modern world in a way in which others - so popular in their own time - often do not. A more humble, less self righteous, and perhaps more contradictory character than some of his leading contemporaries, Baines is today appreciated for capturing with insight the spirit of the Africa he knew and experienced.'… (mehr)